Rahma

“The male ego had spent two millennia running unchecked by its female counterpart. The Priory of Sion believed that it was this obliteration of the sacred feminine in modern life that had caused what the Hopi Native Americans called koyanisquatsi - "life out of balance" - an unstable situation marked by testosterone-fueled wars, a plethora of misogynistic societies, and a growing disrespect for Mother Earth.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“history is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books—books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“إن من أكبر الأخطار هو تجريد المثقف من وسط المجتمع . ولو تجرد المثقف من وسط مجتمعه ، فإنه حتي وإن صعد إلي العرش ، أو أصبح معلم جميع مثقفي العالم ، لبقي مجتمعه علي نفس الإنحطاط الدائمى”
― Ali Shariati, مسؤولية المثقف

“There are moments when the future looks so black that one is afraid to let one's thoughts dwell on it, refuses to let one's mind function and tries to convince oneself that the future will not be, and the past has not been. At such moments, when the will is not governed or modified by reflection and the only incentives that remain in life are our physical instincts, I can understand how a child, being particularly prone owing to lack of experience to fall into such a state, may without the least hesitation or fear, with a smile of curiosity deliberately set fire to his own house - and then fan the flames where is brothers, his father an his mother, all of who he loves dearly, are sleeping.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth